Gustav vs Vartopia

Gustav is a staffing sub-vendor marketplace and vendor management platform for prime vendors, sub-vendors, master vendors and MSP offerings. Prime vendors can distribute open jobs to all or selected trusted vendors, while Gustav Circles groups vendors and supports staged job releases. Teams can source vetted candidates, review documents, build scorecards and sync submissions to an ATS. Custom hiring pipelines track candidate stages and can trigger vendor notifications; interview times can also be shared with candidates and vendors from a pipeline. Its Bullhorn integration shares jobs, receives candidate submissions, imports files and syncs custom data. A Chrome extension connects JobDiva jobs and candidate submissions and can trigger vendor notifications from status changes. An XML feed exports marketplace jobs to an ATS. Sub-vendors can join and follow prime vendors for free, and primes can invite current partners. Gustav is available on the web and as an extension. Most data is stored in an encrypted AWS database at rest and in transit, with restricted server access. Fuse Cooperative, a member-owned Limited Cooperative Association, operates Gustav as its technology platform.

Vartopia Hub brings vendor portals and channel tools into one place for technology vendors and their partners. Partners can access hundreds of vendor portals, pin favorite tiles, and arrange homepage widgets and tools. Vendors can claim a microsite, apply their branding and preferred layout, and connect existing channel tools without replacing them. They may use Vartopia’s deal registration solution or connect an existing tool; Hub integration is optional. Vendor analytics can track partner engagement and measure partner performance. The Partner CRM App is available for Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and HubSpot. Vartopia says Hub uses OKTA for single sign-on to and from a microsite, and its FAQ describes multi-factor authentication and end-to-end data encryption. Partners can use the mobile-friendly Hub on most iOS or Android devices and contact technical support through live chat or a ticket. The partner and vendor offerings are each free, with no user limit; vendor microsites are complimentary. Vartopia describes its architecture as single-instance, multi-tenant and portal/PRM agnostic.